Master OSPF Routing Protocol: Theory translated into practice

Introduction:

This book is written for network administrators and people involved in the IT Field .
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a common TCP/IP routing protocol that provides robust and efficient routing support in the most demanding Internet environments.
Master OSPF Routing Protoco book gives a short theory and many scenarios in 72 practice labs detailed with explanation of the different behaviors and results.

This book provides in-depth analysis of different fields and features of OSPF ,differences between OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 ,analysis of the new LSAs included in OSPFv3: LSAs Type 8 and Type 9,different challenges and solutions are developped in order to provide for readers a detailed view of OSPF Routing Protocol ,analysing different options such B-bit, E-bit ,V-bit, DNA bit and P-bit,loop prevention mechanism of inter-area,Forward Address,Areas Types OSPF such as Stub and NSSA ,LSAs Type etc...

Contents:
Lab 1: Stub and totally stuby area4
Lab 2: OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 comparison8
Lab 3: OSPF over Frame-Relay and redistribution between two OSPF Processes-ID13
Lab 4: Effects of ABR Loop Prevention with OSPFv318
Lab 5: Forwarding Address in OSPF22
Lab 6: OSPFv3 and external route selection25
Lab 7: Forwarding Address and path selection33
Lab 8: Routing Problem with OSPF Forwarding Address41
Lab 10: Routing Problem with OSPFv3 when advertising external routes in NSSA53
Lab 11: OSPFv3 Type-1 2 8 and 9 LSAs60
Lab 12: Effect of the prefix-suppression Feature over the LSAs Type-1 and Type-267
Lab 13: V-bit and B-bit in LSA Type 174
Lab 14: External Route with LSA Type-7 and LSA Type-580
Lab 15: Analysing the LSAs Type of OSPFv388
Lab 16: Understanding of Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA)95
Lab 17: LSA Type 4 asb-summary in multiple area103
Lab 18: LSA Type 4 Forward Address and forward metric107
Lab 19: Suboptimal Routing with LSA Type 4116
Lab 20: OSPFv3 over Frame-Relay118
Lab 21: OSPFv3 and RIPng Redistribution Path control and security127
Lab 22: Forward Address and Next-hop Field139
Lab 23: Inter-area router LSA and suboptimal routing in OSPFv3143
Lab 24: Inter-area prefix LSA and suboptimal routing in OSPFv3146
Lab 25: asbr-summary LSA Type 4149
Lab 26: Analysing OSPF Router LSA (LSA Type 1)152
Lab 27: Inter-area Router and Prefix loop prevention and the suboptimal routing157
Lab 28: Type-5 LSA and a Type-7 LSA for the same network from an ASBR NSSA164
Lab 29: Optimization of OSPF170
Lab 30: NSSA external prefix and secondary address176
Lab 31: Router and Summary LSAs inter-area and intra-area routes185
Lab 32: Virtual-link Router and Summary LSAs192
Lab 33: OSPF with Network Type interface200
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Lab 66: OSPFv3 distribute list filtering demystified512
Lab 67: show ipv6 ospf neighbor command demystified529
Lab 68: Why OE1 route is always preferred over OE2 route?539
Lab 69: OSPFv2 external path selection multiple ASBRs543
Lab 70: OSPFv2 external path selection multiple ASBRs NSSA549
Lab 71: Demystify OSPFv2 external path selection556
Lab 72: Reading the LSDB and building the OSPFv3 topology567